Dog Fight

This morning, my 12 pound Shih-Tzu leaped off of the sofa and landed on top of my quietly supine, 80 pound Mastiff.  At which point, she proceeded to bite his legs and crawl all over him like something out of a Three Stooges fight.  The Mastiff had a two foot long, stuffed monkey leg in [...]

The Last Episode

Tonight, Lifetime will air the last episode of this season’s Project Runway.  The episode will take place at Fashion Week in Bryant Park, which happened in real-time this past September.  I of course, will have to wait until this weekend to see the episode online as I am still living in a world without cable [...]

AWOL

A little seasonal flu has had me out of the office this week and home on the sofa watching Netflix.  When I’m feeling less than dapper, there is nothing better than a series of bad movies, one after the other, hour after hour, all day long until they beat the badness out of you.  There’s [...]

The Baby and the Crack

True story: on Friday the 13th, a toddler at a Minneapolis day care center was found sucking on something.  Nothing unusual about a 13-month old, little boy putting a foreign object into his mouth, right?  Wrong.  When a staff member took the object out of the child’s mouth, she found a hard ball of crack [...]

Planning a Wedding with Details

You know the old saying, “It’s all in the details.”?  Well that holds true for planning weddings too.  This quick look expose long-windedness retelling of mine (five steps to planning a wedding) began with Chapter 1 ‘Atmosphere’ (11.05.09), moved on to Chapter 2 ‘Personality’ (11.6.09) and Chapter 3 ‘Creativity’ (11.09.09), and then included Chapter 4 [...]

Planning a Wedding with the Love and Help of Your Friends and Family

There is no way, noooo way I could’ve thrown myself a wedding without my family and friends.  At first I didn’t want to trouble anyone and was sure I could do it all alone.  By the end, I was asking my mailman if he minded coming in for a moment to help me decorate gift [...]

Planning a Wedding with Creativity

For those of you sick to death of the wedding program over here in blog world….hang in there.  Just a few chapters left, I promise!
Planning a wedding with creativity means taking your personality, taking your budget, and putting them together in a way that says, “Hello, hello, hello.” instead of “Fire in the hole!”  Here [...]

Planning a Wedding with Personality

Think about it…what kind of party would you rather go to?  One in the basement of a hotel with scratchy tablecloths and dry salmon or one at your friend’s house with candlelight and a homemade soundtrack?  If you picked B. then this chapter is for you!
After picking your venue (see last chapter called planning atmosphere) [...]

Sara’s Guide to Planning a Wedding

There are many important facets to throwing a successful wedding.  Just having survived had mine, I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking me how mine turned out right.  Here’s my recipe:

aspirin
citric acid
sodium bicarbonate
plastic explosives
Tabasco sauce

Whoops.  Wrong recipe.  The ingredients to a fantastico celebration are:

Personality.
Creativity.
The Love and Help of Your Friends and Family.
Details.
Intimacy….otherwise known as [...]

Married? Married.

I feel like a rock star coming off tour.  My knees hurt, my smile hurts, even my eyeballs are tired…but it was all worth it.  I’ll do more about what we planned and how it went off, but in the interim, here’s a little taste of the weekend.  Photos are courtesy of Colleen Begg and [...]